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Fathom...Like Staring at the Sea...a Video Installation At the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY

National Lightouse Museum
Dec 14 Through Jan 08 | Sat | 11 am - 4pm | Free with Museum Admission
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Fathom...Like Staring at the Sea...a Video Installation At the National Lighthouse Museum, Staten Island, NY at National Lightouse Museum
Fathom is a video installation that explores the mercurial experience of time passing and the impermanence of life. Set in a dreamlike, transitional space—part waiting room, part ship at sea—the work evokes a sense of suspension, with figures paused, waiting, and watching. Through their actions, the boundaries between measuring time and space blur, reflecting the paradox that after events pass, only memories persist, hovering between the tangible and the ephemeral.

The title, Fathom, embodies this duality. Rooted in its nautical origins as a unit of depth—once defined by the span of a sailor’s outstretched arms—it also invites the viewer to “fathom” or contemplate the immeasurable: time, memory, and absence. The work is both a meditation and a memento mori, like staring at the sea—immense, beautiful, unknowabl

December 14, 2024 to January 8, 2025

For more information info@lighthousemuseum.org 718 390 0040

Venue: National Lightouse Museum

200 The Promenade at Lighthouse Point St.George, (adjacent to the FREE Staten Island Ferry) Map
718-390-0040